Fix "fake" numbers, strip hidden web spaces, and join text professionally using Excel's built-in legacy and modern tools.

I traded the static results of Flash Fill for dynamic formulas that update automatically.

If Excel is showing formulas instead of results on your Windows PC, check the cell format, turn off the 'Show Formulas' ...

An Excel email address list should contain nothing but the addresses themselves. Yet if the spreadsheet received its data from an external form, the column may contain irrelevant text. One cell may ...

Have you ever stared at a massive spreadsheet, overwhelmed by the chaos of mixed data—names, IDs, codes—all crammed into single cells? It’s a common frustration for anyone managing large datasets in ...

Q. I read your August 2022 JofA article about changing the case of text in Excel to upper, lower, and proper, but some of my data comes in sentence form. Is there any way to convert those text strings ...

The CHOOSECOLS formula is a catalyst when it comes to selecting specific columns from a table. This formula allows you to streamline your data analysis process by quickly and easily extracting the ...

Excel spreadsheet databases work because users can filter the data inside these workbooks. Filters are conditions you specify in databases and spreadsheets to extract only the precise, requested ...

Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...

You can add text to a cell in Microsoft Excel the traditional way by simply typing, but there are other ways to get the job done. For example, you can use a formula, or even a function to accomplish ...